Opening Activity: Let's Think, Talk & Walk!

Online Comprehension Definitions Wordle

Online Reading Comprehension

I. Online Reading Comprehension

Research on Instruction in the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension Reading
Let's Give It a Whirl! A Learning Opportunity:

• Search Engine Results (Location: Google Search)

II. Internet Reciprocal Teaching (IRT)

Overview of Three Phases of IRT:

1. Teacher Led Instruction;
2. Collaborative Modeling;
3. Online Inquiry

Let's Give It a Whirl! More Learning Opportunities:

• Phase I: Teacher modeling (Height of Mt. Fuji)
• Phase II: Reading Across Multiple Perspectives (Critical Evaluation and Synthesis: Ititarod Video)
• Phase III: Going Global (ePals, Oz projects, Global School Net)

III. Review, Next Steps & Questions/Reflections

Review and closure
Questions/Reflections (Answer question on this page's discussion board, go to the top and click on the Discussion Tab)

IV. Online Comprehension Powerpoint

V. Additional Handouts and Resources

Beach, R. & Doerr-Stevens, C. (2009). Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association, Minneapolis, MN.
Coiro, J. (2005). . Educational Leadership, 63, 30-35.

Coiro, J. (2009). . Educational Leadership, 66, 59-63.

Coiro, J. (2009). Instructional Strategies for Critically Evaluating Online Information. Online workshop and handouts to support aspects of critical evaluation including evaluating relevancy, accuracy, reliability, and perspective.
Leu, D. J., O'Byrne, W. I., Zawilinski, L., McVerry, J. G., & Everett-Cocapardo, H. (2009). . Educational Researcher, 38, 264-269.
Leu, D. J., Jr., Coiro, J., Castek, J., Hartman, D. K., Henry, L. A., & Reinking, D. (2008).. In C. C. Block, S. Parris, and P. Afflerbach, (Eds.), Comprehension instruction: Research-based best practices, 321-346. New York: Guilford Press
Spires, H., Hervey, L., & Watson, T. (2009, in press). Scaffolding the TPCK framework with English language arts inservice teachers New literacies and new minds.pdf. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Spires, H., Wiebe, E., Young, C. A., Hollebrands, K. & Lee, J. (2009). toward-a-new-learning-ecology.pdf . Friday Institute White Paper Series. NC State University: Raleigh, NC.